for a kid playing pinball a flipper’s the way

a deft pinball wizard keeps pinballs in play

and flipper’s a mammal who swims like a fish

and chattered on tv bout mid-sixtyish

when sweat makes the equity soar for the fixer

she flips for liquidity (primo elixir)

an egg over easy a coin in the air

take two different flippers who flip with a flair

but one wondrous flipper this year became known

as the Greatest Of All Time: the Gymnast, Simone.